Species Cystococcus pomiformis (Froggatt, 1893)

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• Brachyscelis pomiformis Froggatt, W.W. 1893. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with some account of their parasites, and descriptions of new species. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7: 353-378 [367].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ASCU ♀ (Notes: Two syntypic galls in ASCT (Gullan, personal communication, June 10, 1996).), AUSTRALIA: North Western Australia, Barrier Range, King's Sound; Northern Queensland, Torrens' Creek, near Charters Tower.

Generic Combinations

• Apiomorpha pomiformis (Froggatt, 1893). —
  Cockerell, T.D.A. 1896. A check list of the Coccidae. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 4: 318-339 [328]
• Cystococcus pomiformis (Froggatt, 1893). —
  Froggatt, W.W. 1921. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects (Coccidae) of Australia. (Part II [Concl.]). Science Bulletin, Department of Agriculture, New South Wales 18: 1-159 [156-157]
• Ascelis pomiformis (Froggatt, 1893) [changed combination "not accepted by subsequent authors" — see Semple at al. (2015)]. —
  Lindinger, L. 1957. Ein weiterer Beitrag zur Synonymie der Cocciden. Beiträge zur Entomologie (Berlin) 7: 543-553 [545]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

GENERAL

Most detailed description and illustration by Froggatt, W.W. 1893. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with some account of their parasites, and descriptions of new species. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7: 353–378. This species is distributed in the northern parts of the western and northern territories of the country (Froggatt, 1893).

BIOLOGY

The gall inner wall and enclosed insect are edible (see Froggatt, W.W. 1893. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with some account of their parasites, and descriptions of new species. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7: 353–378).

STRUCTURE

Female gall is apple shaped, slightly depressed at the base where attached to the host, swelling out on the sides, greyish brown in color (see Froggatt, W.W. 1893. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with some account of their parasites, and descriptions of new species. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7: 353–378). Gall is often very large, sometimes up to 10cm in diameter (Gullan, personal communication, 1998).

General References

Semple, T.L., Gullan, P.J., Hodgson, C.J., Hardy, N.B. & Cook, L.G. 2015. Systematic review of the Australian 'bush coconut' genus Cystococcus (Hemiptera: Eriococcidae) uncovers a new species from Queensland. Invertebrate Systematics 29: 287-312 [305] (redescribed)

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